I'm looking for a decently powered PSU thats very quiet or completely silent. I'd also like it to be able to handle the new Nforce 4 mobo's for when I upgrade (proably within the next 6 months or so). Hopeing to keep the total price under $70.

Well, I've been looking into upgrading my system, almost a completely new computer and am in the same limbo as you are. I have been searching to see if it's recommended with any ASUS boards, no luck though, but nothing bad either. The reviews of it seem to suggest it can handle the newer boards though.

You sure that's the one they're talking about? Many PSU's have one of these:which look very much like the old AT motherboard connectors. The only motherboard that I've seen that used that was the Gigabyte 8IHXP.

Correct, but it does come with a 20>24 pin and a 4pin>8pin adapter for newer/dually systems.
I have the 550watt version of that powering my dual Xeon system. Even with the fan on 'high', it's still very quiet. On low or auto, it should be nearly silent.

You shouldnt judge a psu by its fan color or something like that, that review is horrible.......... Look at it, yeah they dont take pictures of the connectors, no stress testing, no decibal meter, heck the only thing they said was it has long cable supports sata and looks cool, big deal, its not supposed to look good, its a powersupply...... Get a brand name....

Alright, I recently came into some money and I've been looking to subtly upgrade my system by buying newer parts and hawking the ones they replace. Understandably this isn't the best method but hey, $200 can really trim the hedges around my current setup:
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Antec True Blue 350 - Loud, replacing with a coolermasterasus a7n8x-deluxe rev 1.04 - No major beef, but the newer Abit boards are much more polished and I may want to exchange if the difference is only $25 or so
amd xp 1800+ tbred-b; - Might upgrade the proc to a barton (or maybe I'll just wait till I go all out and get a 64 bit one)
Thermal take volcano 9 - up till now my PSU has drown out everything else, might exchange for something quieter/more efficient if necessary
Radeon 9500 128 Meg NP- Softmoded to 9700 - for now it will hold

my hard drives and optical drives are doing ok at least for now. Though I have been considering selling my 2 extra 80 gig seagates and putting the money I could get (hopefully $60-$65) towards a nice 250 gig SATA drive since at present I have to run both IDE HD's on the same channel. Why? Because no cables will reach far enough with their secondary connectors to mix and match with my optical drives.
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Right, so I just placed an order for the PSU and one of these sticks of GEIL RAM Of course now it hits me that this deal is still good for 2 Kingston hyperX 512 modules

Of course now its too late to cancel the order, and it drained $157 from my $200. I don't mind the idea of waiting for parts to come and then for selling the old ones so much, but I can't help but wonder if I should have sprung for the Kingston. And of course if I should now wait and sell stuff till I have the money and get the Kingston.

Now that I think about it, it comes out to $85 a piece, which is at the least pretty good for the ram. I can't help but wonder how must more expensive it would be elsewhere though (I checked around Newegg and Pricewatch and similar high end ram is around $15-20 more, not that I did a very thorough look). If I could buy the sticks individually I'd defenitly have sprung for/wouldn't mind the exchanging process for the Kingston ram. I've always enjoyed high quality parts and all but all the tests ive seen have never really impressed me with the performance differences between CAS 2 and CAS 2.5 ram.

You have used an even higher watt version though right? Hmmm... *wonders if that would need to produce MORE heat/noise or less in theory*

I guess it should be a bit quieter than the 450 version since the PSU would be under-drawing its max so much that it wouldn't approach that declining curve of efficiency?

You mean me?
The PSU I had was this model.
I don't remember the model of the other Coolmax PSU I had. I sold that one to Niterider along with some Xeons some months ago. Haven't heard any complaints yet.

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